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xongsmith Member Posts: 2587 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 6.5
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Peter O'Toole, 81
- xongsmith, 5.7d
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ramoss Member (Idle past 634 days) Posts: 3228 Joined:
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Joan Fontaine, 96, and Tom 'Billy Jack' Laughlin. 82.
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1.61803 Member (Idle past 1526 days) Posts: 2928 From: Lone Star State USA Joined:
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He was fantastic; an actor for the ages.
RIP Peter (Don Quixote ) O'Toole "You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative" William S. Burroughs
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subbie Member (Idle past 1277 days) Posts: 3509 Joined:
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Harold Camping dead at 92
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. -- Thomas Jefferson We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat It has always struck me as odd that fundies devote so much time and effort into trying to find a naturalistic explanation for their mythical flood, while looking for magical explanations for things that actually happened. -- Dr. Adequate Howling about evidence is a conversation stopper, and it never stops to think if the claim could possibly be true -- foreveryoung
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Phat Member Posts: 18310 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.1 |
Finally...according to Gods timing!
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Diomedes Member Posts: 995 From: Central Florida, USA Joined: |
Harold Camping dead at 92 I wonder if he saw it coming. "Our future lies not in our dogmatic past, but in our enlightened present"
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ringo Member (Idle past 434 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
Ronnie Biggs. Maybe not a great man but a Great Train Robbery.
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Percy Member Posts: 22480 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.8
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This isn't the topic, but hearing about Camping's passing I was curious how followers had reacted to the failures of his prophecies and found this article:
I found this paragraph particularly enlightening - it explains a lot of discussions here:
I was struck by how some believers edited the past in order to avoid acknowledging that they had been mistaken. The engineer in his mid-twenties, the one who told me this was a prophecy rather than a prediction, maintained that he had never claimed to be certain about May 21. When I read him the transcript of our previous interview, he seemed genuinely surprised that those words had come out of his mouth. It was as if we were discussing a dream he couldn’t quite remember. --Percy
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Diomedes Member Posts: 995 From: Central Florida, USA Joined: |
I was struck by how some believers edited the past in order to avoid acknowledging that they had been mistaken This is not in an of itself that surprising. Moving the goalposts or playing the denial game is part in parcel with these types of situations. Camping himself gave a very tepid apology in regards to this fiasco. If we all recall, when the May date came and went, he changed the terminology to reflect that the May date was the 'spiritual rapture' and the new October date would become the 'actual rapture'. Of course, when that date also went by, he got kind of quiet. From a Biblical perspective however, what fascinates me the most is that the Bible explicitly states that no one other than god can know the day of the rapture. That is mentioned in the book of Matthew;
quote: So how is it that these so called religious people do not understand what their own Bible states and not call out people like Camping on their BS?
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8536 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 5.0
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Peter (Don Quixote ) O'Toole And his brother, Peter "Lawrence" O'Toole.
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1.61803 Member (Idle past 1526 days) Posts: 2928 From: Lone Star State USA Joined:
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"Orr-Rence, Orr-Rence!"
"You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative" William S. Burroughs
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1427 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
I found this paragraph particularly enlightening - it explains a lot of discussions here: Do I need to say Cognitive Dissonance? Enjoyby our ability to understand Rebel American Zen Deist ... to learn ... to think ... to live ... to laugh ... to share. Join the effort to solve medical problems, AIDS/HIV, Cancer and more with Team EvC! (click)
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1427 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
and his younger brother Michael James O'toole ...
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Omnivorous Member Posts: 3985 From: Adirondackia Joined: Member Rating: 7.2 |
Percy writes: I found this paragraph particularly enlightening - it explains a lot of discussions here:
I was struck by how some believers edited the past in order to avoid acknowledging that they had been mistaken. The engineer in his mid-twenties, the one who told me this was a prophecy rather than a prediction, maintained that he had never claimed to be certain about May 21. When I read him the transcript of our previous interview, he seemed genuinely surprised that those words had come out of his mouth. It was as if we were discussing a dream he couldn’t quite remember. Creepy... But it reminds me of my sainted mother, who, when asked if she remembered the time she threw a star-shaped nut dish at me and it slammed into the drywall like a Ninja death star, replied, "Oh, I did not!" Edited by Omnivorous, : What, you thought saints were perfect?"If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you can collect a lot of heads."
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1466 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined:
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Most Christians are embarrassed by Camping and consider him the leader of a cult.
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